Dear Sir

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 100, 4 September 1942, Page 4

Dear Sir

Letters to the Editor must be clearly written on one side of the paper only and where a nom-de-plume is used the name of the writer must be included for reference purposes. The Editor reserves the ughi to abridge, amend or withhold any letter of letters. SICK BED REFLECTIONS Sir, — "It does not do to let the world know what you have far dinner, For though they see you're getting fat they'll swear you're getting thinner." This old rhyme recurred to my mind the other day. I had. kept to bed in the morning because my wife, convinced that something was wrong with me, had insisted upon taking my temperature and was shocked to find it 98.43 repeating. Soi with admirable caution (and perhaps an eye to the Social Security Act) she insisted also upon calling in the family physician. In due course "The Mixture" was prescribed in the proper professional manner. The seemingly studied secrecy of its symbolism (and the obvious collusion of the apothecary) prompted my sick mind to the 1 following: We NEIVER tell our patient what We're putting in his meds'n Lest tho' he sees he's getting fat He swear we'll have 'm dead soon. Yours without, prejudice

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